As someone who was present for the destruction of Fallujah & Ramadi, and who then got to watch the destruction of Tripoli/Benghazi/Aleppo/Idlib on TV later on, it's REALLY weird seeing how much more Americans seem to care when it's white European cities getting bombed out of existence compared to when it's a mostly Muslim city that's in some part of the MENASA. Like, there is a stark difference between how Americans perceived the tens of thousands of innocent Shia and Sunni we bombarded with bad-intel airstrikes, white phosphorus munitions, HIMARs rockets, drone strikes, and roadblock shootings over the last 20 years compared to how we react to when Russia is doing it to white Europeans. Like, am I the only one who notices this disconnect or nah? Maybe we ought to think about our principles sometimes and think about why it is that we care sometimes and not so much others. It's telling the world a lot about ourselves.